Video has finally been released of a vicious incident involving a school security officer in Louisville, KY, who choked out a student half his size and dropped him to the ground, resulting in brain damage.

Officer Jonathan Hardin is facing charges of assault, wanton endangerment, official misconduct and false swearing after it emerged that on multiple separate occasions he used extreme excessive physical force on students at Olmstead Academy North Middle School.

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Filming Cops was started in 2010 as a conglomerative blogging service documenting police abuse. The aim isn’t to demonize the natural concept of security provision as such, but to highlight specific cases of State-monopolized police brutality that are otherwise ignored by traditional media outlets.

Doing this to an adult is bad enough but to a child is outrageously over the line! That cop needs to go to jail for a long time. Cops need to get the message that assaulting children is absolutely prohibited under any circumstances. There needs to be a civilian review and oversight board in every community to make sure cops are properly screened and trained when to use and not to use brutal force when enforcing the law. Too many people are dying at the hands of cops who lose their self control and become extremely violent for unjustified reasons!

That cop will get paid vacation. Stop paying for their “service”, and form a new force that is just.

Joe Suhrada

He will never be charged after the rigged grand jury does its evil work.

anna

that is why parents should file child abuse and neglect charges against police that injure , abuse or endanger a child by these actions

Masculist Man

Apparently the liberals from their whitebreded worlds are weighing in. First of all the kid attacked the cop and that kid was pretty big,almost the same size as the officer from what I can tell from the video. A lot of these kids have done bad things that we’ve all read about and it looked like he was taken a fighting stance against the officer.

balls22

I didn’t know being against grown men choking out little kids until they get permanent brain damage was a partisan issue :/

No the kid was MUCH smaller than the officer. At least much thinner and not nearly as burly. And he wasn’t being serious, his demeanor was playful.

Norm

That does not justify choking him out. If someone assaults me, I expect them to be handcuffed and to face charges related to what happened. I’d never want them to be attacked and assaulted back. If that’s even what you could claim this as, assault(in regards to what the kid did). He had a playful demeanor. What the hell happened to morals and judgement.

Heck, they had their way with me, just suspecting I had pushed a person. I’m fighting the next one that tries to have his/her way with me, to the death. These strange armed bullies acting on behalf of power hungry control freaks are ruining everything, I mean, look at me, I’m threatening to fight one to the death, wtf?

Wayne Darby

His brother needs his ass kicked for trying to defend what his pig brother did.

Stacey Noel

I would torture him to death if he did that to my child.

Joseph Edward Bodden

with holding medical attention for any reason is not good enough reason for anything… bust his ass.

Charles Hill

They will hang this fellow, but the guy that choked a man to death was let free why ?

child abuse , child neglect, child endangerment, this officer should face an investigation from division of social services children division a hotline report should be done on all cases involving cops and children, if they hurt children then they need to face the same laws other individuals face, this is endangerment he endangered the childs life, it is abuse he abused a child REPORT IT

anna

if the investigation is substantiated then cops that abuse children their parental right should be TERMINATED , and this need to be passed on to any parent who has had a child that was or has been abused by police so they know to do a hotline on those police involved if a child care provider or parent did this behavior they would face investigation by state government children services perhaps police need to face the same investigation

anna

the parents should refer to child abuse and see the statuates of limitation unsure in most state an incident can be reported with evidence any where from 5 to 10 years after the incident, the video and reports are the evidence , you really wouldn’t want a child raised by a police officer that does this to a child now would you, is they do this on the job who knows how those police act at home no do you.

anna

child abuse and endangerment report should be done and if this cop has children his parental rights should be TERMINATED, if it was a parent that did that to their kids children would be removed from the home during an investigation, cops or police that do this to children should face the same treatment from Social services childrens division, take it out the hand of the county and place it in the hands of the state

Reuben James Hunt

This guy needs to spend the rest of his pathetic life in jail for this monstrosity